In the book, The Art of Innovation, its author Tom Kelly challenged its readers with “Show me a company going places and I’ll show you a story worth telling. If your company has been doing some neat stuff or has got big plans for the future, it’s probably got a place for show-and-tell.”

At Manila Institute for Culinary Arts and Residential Services, the success stories of its graduates have become its show-and-tell. Perhaps the distinct advantage of the two years of the school’s dualized training is that it allowed the school administrators to document the “before” and “after” of its students in a rather short period of time.